Tim “Positive Subway” Smith
@positivesubway.bsky.social
One time Joe Lhota said he wanted to see some positive tweets about the subway, and I answered the call. Repeal Hecht-Calandra. NYCDOE/NYCPS parent emeritus. All content is handcrafted _just_ for you and represents my personal opinions only
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Imaginary Friends
Chuck Schumer’s imaginary middle-class couple
www.newyorker.com
For no particular reason tonight I’m reminded that Chuck Schumer runs all of his decision-making through an imaginary Republican family that lives in a LI suburb where 1.1% of the residents are Black, 97% live in a SFH they own, and 3% are under the poverty line
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
If there’s anything we can learn from the Columbia USNWR rankings scandal, it’s that if a school is withholding information from its Common Data Set, it’s to cover something up
iow, UChicago, NYU, and others who don’t reveal ED numbers must be admitting an obscene percentage of their classes via ED
iow, UChicago, NYU, and others who don’t reveal ED numbers must be admitting an obscene percentage of their classes via ED
Meet the Millionaire Masters of Early Decision at Colleges
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If there’s anything we can learn from the Columbia USNWR rankings scandal, it’s that if a school is withholding information from its Common Data Set, it’s to cover something up
iow, UChicago, NYU, and others who don’t reveal ED numbers must be admitting an obscene percentage of their classes via ED
iow, UChicago, NYU, and others who don’t reveal ED numbers must be admitting an obscene percentage of their classes via ED
I really don’t understand the targeting rule in college football
(This is in reference to the running TD by the Alabama QB that was called back for a hold, and at the end of which the QB was completely annihilated by a helmet-to-helmet hit)
(This is in reference to the running TD by the Alabama QB that was called back for a hold, and at the end of which the QB was completely annihilated by a helmet-to-helmet hit)
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I really don’t understand the targeting rule in college football
(This is in reference to the running TD by the Alabama QB that was called back for a hold, and at the end of which the QB was completely annihilated by a helmet-to-helmet hit)
(This is in reference to the running TD by the Alabama QB that was called back for a hold, and at the end of which the QB was completely annihilated by a helmet-to-helmet hit)
Child-hating newspaper wants unlimited speeding in school zones and no outdoor play options at recess: “fuck those kids”
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city's drivers.
nypost.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Child-hating newspaper wants unlimited speeding in school zones and no outdoor play options at recess: “fuck those kids”
I’m not here to kink shame anyone who likes shredded turkey, but if you want a perfectly sliced bird, please watch any of the demonstration videos from the late, great Fairway master butcher Ray Venezia
youtu.be/wTzccVS9vac?...
youtu.be/wTzccVS9vac?...
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’m not here to kink shame anyone who likes shredded turkey, but if you want a perfectly sliced bird, please watch any of the demonstration videos from the late, great Fairway master butcher Ray Venezia
youtu.be/wTzccVS9vac?...
youtu.be/wTzccVS9vac?...
I don’t think that ostensible Democrats/leftists should enthusiastically participate in the decades-long Republican project to discredit, disparage, and defund universities
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I don’t think that ostensible Democrats/leftists should enthusiastically participate in the decades-long Republican project to discredit, disparage, and defund universities
This isn’t quite as bad as the George Packer piece on woke schools, but it’s close
Attention editors and newsrooms—having a kid doesn’t make a writer qualified to write about schools, and it seems fairly obvious it’s a potential conflict for them to write about schools that their own kids attend…?
Attention editors and newsrooms—having a kid doesn’t make a writer qualified to write about schools, and it seems fairly obvious it’s a potential conflict for them to write about schools that their own kids attend…?
Something disastrous has happened to student achievement in American public schools, and academics are nearly united in the opinion that the problem is not simply a product of the pandemic.
How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most
Student achievement has fallen off a cliff. Neither Trump nor the pandemic is to blame.
nymag.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This isn’t quite as bad as the George Packer piece on woke schools, but it’s close
Attention editors and newsrooms—having a kid doesn’t make a writer qualified to write about schools, and it seems fairly obvious it’s a potential conflict for them to write about schools that their own kids attend…?
Attention editors and newsrooms—having a kid doesn’t make a writer qualified to write about schools, and it seems fairly obvious it’s a potential conflict for them to write about schools that their own kids attend…?
A heartwarming holiday tale from the intersection of big-time college athletics and traffic safety
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A heartwarming holiday tale from the intersection of big-time college athletics and traffic safety
Opinion | I was deep in neighborhood Facebook groups and Twitter replies all summer and fall posting that Mandummy would institute sharia law, seize private property, raze synagogues, and create a white people tax. Here’s why it’s outrageous that he hasn’t picked me to be his schools chancellor.
Zohran Mamdani didn’t add people and groups that actively campaigned against him to his transition team, and the New York Post is ON IT
nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
NYC charter schools snubbed by Zohran Mamdani transition team as special interests gobble up posts
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani shuts out representation from the publicly-funded charter school sector as well as groups that support merit-based education — such as gifted and talented programs …
nypost.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opinion | I was deep in neighborhood Facebook groups and Twitter replies all summer and fall posting that Mandummy would institute sharia law, seize private property, raze synagogues, and create a white people tax. Here’s why it’s outrageous that he hasn’t picked me to be his schools chancellor.
Cuomo and Bulldog Strategies regretting this morning that they were too indirect in making this same pitch to voters
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Cuomo and Bulldog Strategies regretting this morning that they were too indirect in making this same pitch to voters
Zohran Mamdani didn’t add people and groups that actively campaigned against him to his transition team, and the New York Post is ON IT
nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
NYC charter schools snubbed by Zohran Mamdani transition team as special interests gobble up posts
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani shuts out representation from the publicly-funded charter school sector as well as groups that support merit-based education — such as gifted and talented programs …
nypost.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Zohran Mamdani didn’t add people and groups that actively campaigned against him to his transition team, and the New York Post is ON IT
nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
POTS represents the absolute best of humanity and lifting up those in need, and if you are looking for a worthwhile cause to donate money, goods, or your time, click here: potsbronx.org/english/
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
POTS represents the absolute best of humanity and lifting up those in need, and if you are looking for a worthwhile cause to donate money, goods, or your time, click here: potsbronx.org/english/
Caitlin Flanagan’s one of those people
I think there’s a critical mass of people including parents of daughters who actually think that it would’ve been a storybook ending if the grossly inappropriate intergenerational professional conduct had led to RFK marrying Nuzzi or Cuomo marrying Trooper 1, it’s nuts
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Caitlin Flanagan’s one of those people
I found my thrill on
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I found my thrill on
David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
UPDATE: bringing discourses together and revising this previous post. Actually about half of the families in Olivia Nuzzi’s hometown live in poverty
The Monmouth County town where Olivia Nuzzi grew up has a median HHI of $144,546; a median home value of $633,200; 90% of the housing units are owner-occupied single-family homes; and 6% of the students at her high school qualify for a free or reduced-price lunch
wOrKInG-cLaSs nEw jErsEy
wOrKInG-cLaSs nEw jErsEy
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
UPDATE: bringing discourses together and revising this previous post. Actually about half of the families in Olivia Nuzzi’s hometown live in poverty
Reposted by Tim “Positive Subway” Smith
Is New York Magazine _absolutely sure_ there weren’t any journalistic issues with Nuzzi’s work, like 100% sure?
September 20, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Is New York Magazine _absolutely sure_ there weren’t any journalistic issues with Nuzzi’s work, like 100% sure?
Do not ever change, New York Times
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Do not ever change, New York Times
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Finding out Judah Friedlander is a NIMBY because he replied to a Kate Willet tweet sympathetically was not on my bingo card today
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Finding out Judah Friedlander is a NIMBY because he replied to a Kate Willet tweet sympathetically was not on my bingo card today
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They're just some God fearing folk protecting us from criminal elements trying to enter our (finger to earpiece)
oh wait
patch.com/new-hampshir...
oh wait
patch.com/new-hampshir...
Three Charged in Friday Road Incident
Police say they were involved in an assault in the Lawrence Road/Cluff Road area.
patch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
They're just some God fearing folk protecting us from criminal elements trying to enter our (finger to earpiece)
oh wait
patch.com/new-hampshir...
oh wait
patch.com/new-hampshir...
Not even on a second cup of tea and today’s first impeachable/administration-ending event has dropped
Calling ICE on the mother of your child, who you know was 5 when she came to the US, and who you know might not be returned to the country where she came from
Pretty fucked up!
Calling ICE on the mother of your child, who you know was 5 when she came to the US, and who you know might not be returned to the country where she came from
Pretty fucked up!
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not even on a second cup of tea and today’s first impeachable/administration-ending event has dropped
Calling ICE on the mother of your child, who you know was 5 when she came to the US, and who you know might not be returned to the country where she came from
Pretty fucked up!
Calling ICE on the mother of your child, who you know was 5 when she came to the US, and who you know might not be returned to the country where she came from
Pretty fucked up!
Reposted by Tim “Positive Subway” Smith
New: New York’s largest health care union, 1199SEIU, is endorsing Crystal Hudson’s bid to become the City Council’s next speaker, becoming the first major organized labor group to get officially involved in the race, which hit a fever pitch overnight. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/26/p...
Powerful health care union 1199SEIU backs Crystal Hudson for NYC Council speaker as race heats up
1199, the country’s largest health care union, is the first major labor organization to publicly announce a preference in the Council race.
www.nydailynews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New: New York’s largest health care union, 1199SEIU, is endorsing Crystal Hudson’s bid to become the City Council’s next speaker, becoming the first major organized labor group to get officially involved in the race, which hit a fever pitch overnight. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/26/p...
Reposted by Tim “Positive Subway” Smith
Trump take children
At dozens of schools that took in the largest shares of migrant students in recent years, enrollment fell by 11% over the past year, wiping away years of gains.
A wave of immigration boosted enrollment at dozens of NYC schools. Now, their numbers are falling.
At dozens of schools that took in the largest shares of migrant students in recent years, enrollment fell by 11% over the past year, wiping away years of gains.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trump take children
Reposted by Tim “Positive Subway” Smith
Hey Bronxites, are these spots valid? The Kid Mero gave us his favorite five places in the Bronx. Have you been to any of these?
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Hey Bronxites, are these spots valid? The Kid Mero gave us his favorite five places in the Bronx. Have you been to any of these?